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d21lewis on 16 June 2015
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Ssenkahdavic said:

Sony did something completely different this E3 than ever before, they made their conference a complete gaming conference and not a Press Conference.

Every year, we get good things from E3, but they always feel like a Corporate Shareholders meeting. This year, no sales numbers, no adoption rates, nothing like that (except for the slight mention of Spotify). It was games, game announcements, Vue and Morpheous. Have to say I like the new format that Sony has gone with.

This year the MS conference felt like the Sony conferences of old (and in someways vice versa).  The MS conference to felt to me more like a "Go Back to the PC" than a "Keep investing in the Xbox One".

Now they just need to get some better announcers....

To the items:  

How do people who think BC is soooo important completely ignore remakes?  Old games are old games, some just have a new set of paint.  If BC was so important, how did the original PS3 with BC not overtake the world?  I still have the original PS3 60gig and I think I have played 5 total PS2 games in it (had it since launch.  Persona 3, Persona 4, Suikoden 3-5).  I love remakes done right (The Gears Remakes?  UC Remakes? FFVII Remakes?  Good stuff)  

Games:  Really, games are subjective between the two conferences.  They both brought the games and made them the focus.  Good stuff.

Tech:  Did anyone else get the feeling that MS was focusing on the PC with Tech especially?  Controller...PC.  Hololens...PC (and really I can think of a ton of awesome uses for it outside of gaming), the Oculus Rift Partnership...PC.  Sony was looking at their PS4 and at their future as a Company with tech (so was MS).

 

Backwards compatibility is a great feature, any way you slice it.  I even said I'd pay $100 more for a PS4 or XB1 with BC built in over a year ago.  I can find the post.

 

Why was it such a big deal when PS2 had it?  Why were people raging when it was no longer in the PS3?  As for the last, the PS3 was $500-$600 back in 2006.  Maybe that's why it didn't catch fire.....  I know that not everybody cares but for those that do, it's an amazing feature.  Their most requested according to the feedback program (which I'm a part of).